The Yang family is a famous family in Hanzhong, and controls the military and political power in Hanzhong, even if Zhang Lu wants to move the Yang family in Hanzhong, he must be afraid of three points.

This is also why, after Zhang Lu occupied Hanzhong, he wantonly promoted and reused the Yang family. Among them, Yang Songnai was Zhang Lu's strategist, and Yang Ang, Yang Ren, and Yang Bai were all generals in Hanzhong.

Zhang Wei wanted to step forward to kill Yang Song, but Yang Ang and the others naturally would not sit idly by, and they all came over to stop Zhang Wei.

Although Yang Song is greedy for money and forgetful of righteousness, he has no talent, after all, he is an important figure of the Yang family in Hanzhong, and naturally has the arrogance of belonging to the children of the family.

When Zhang Lu settled in Hanzhong, if it weren't for the Yang family, he might not have been able to gain a firm foothold here. Coupled with the huge power of the Yang family, Yang Song was not very jealous of Zhang Wei.

Today, he didn't expect that Zhang Wei would dare to kill himself in front of so many people, and he was immediately furious.

Yang Song pointed at Zhang Wei and shouted angrily: "Shijun is here, how can you be presumptuous here?" Don't think that because you are the brother of Shijun, you can be so unscrupulous. ”

After reprimanding Zhang Wei, his face immediately changed, and he came to Zhang Lu with a sad face and said: "A certain person who is loyal to the heart of the master can be seen in the sky. Zhang Wei wanted to kill me in public for no reason, and asked Shijun to be the master of the matter for me. ”

Zhang Wei was stopped by Yang Ang and others and couldn't break free, and after hearing Yang Song's words, he immediately said angrily: "If you hadn't tried your best to persuade the lord to be king, how could you have caused such a catastrophe?" ”

"Now that you are colluding with the envoys of Guanzhong again, and you want to betray the lord for glory, shouldn't you kill them?"

Yang Ren, who grabbed Zhang Wei, heard this, but his face sank, and he said: "You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense." My brother is just thinking about Shijun, and whether he surrenders to the general or not, it also depends on Shijun's meaning, so how can he talk about selling the master for glory? ”

"Didn't you also persuade the master to become king?"

Zhang Lu looked at the powerful Yang people, and an imperceptible color flashed in his eyes, but he covered it up well.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and if it was not a very strong prince, it would be constrained by the local tyrants and clans. Even those powerful monarchs cannot completely eliminate the influence of local families.

It's like Yuan Shao, in order to gain a firm foothold in Jizhou, he reused the local people in Jizhou to give and judge them, so that one was in charge of the military and the other was in charge of internal affairs. Comparatively speaking, the power of Xu You and others is much inferior.

Zhang He and Gao Lan, the two local clans of Jizhou, can be reused, and it is not because of their family background. Others, such as Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Sun Ce and others, were also seriously constrained by the local clans.

Although Zhang Lu was nominally the lord of Hanzhong, the influence of the Yang family spread throughout Hanzhong, but Zhang Lu never completely controlled Hanzhong.

In the past, several people in the Yang clan were still very humble to Zhang Lu, but they didn't expect that when Hanzhong was embattled, they would become so bold and reckless.

Forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, Zhang Lu reprimanded Zhang Weidao: "Yang Changshi is loyal to me and wants to give advice to me, how can the public rule be so disrespectful to Yang Changshi?" ”

Zhang Wei was about to refute, but after seeing Zhang Lu's gloomy face, he had to bow his head and remain silent.

He also knew that the Yang clan was extremely powerful in Hanzhong, and now was the time for Hanzhong to live and die, and it was no good to fall out with them.

Zhang Lu was also very helpless about the current situation, and was frowning and thinking about what to do, when someone suddenly broke in in a hurry.

The messenger said loudly: "Shijun, Guanzhong General Xu Huang led 50,000 horses and horses, and directly led the troops from Liangzhou to Yangping Guancheng. That Xu Huang let out words, saying that the 50,000 army is just the vanguard, if Shijun does not surrender as soon as possible, there will be no chickens and dogs left on the day of the city breakdown! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Lu shouted: "It will take at least more than a month to arrive at the city of Yangping Pass from Liangzhou, how can Xu Huang come to the city so quickly?" ”

The messenger's words caused an uproar in the palace of Hanning. No one expected that Guan Zhongbing would arrive at Yangping Pass so quickly.

If the Guanzhong army came to the city from the Meridian Valley, Luogu Road, Xiegu Road, and Chencang Ancient Dao soldiers, everyone would not be so surprised.

However, the route taken by Xu Huang is the farthest and westernmost route from Guanzhong to Bashu, that is, the route of Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition in history.

If it weren't for the fact that Guanzhong had long coveted the land of Hanzhong, it would never have been possible to come to the city so quickly. Thinking that Guan Zhongbing's southern expedition had been planned for a long time, everyone felt a deep chill.

Yang Song took advantage of the fact that Zhang Lu's six gods were ownerless, and once again admonished: "The soldiers in Guanzhong have been planning for a long time, if Shijun does not surrender to the general as soon as possible, it will be too late to regret the day the city is broken!" ”

As soon as Yang Song's voice fell, many civil and military forces also responded.

At this time, another messenger reported: "Guanzhong Xizuo has received news that all the Guanzhong troops in the north are heading to Liangzhou, and it is very likely that they will take Xu Huang's route and attack Yangping Pass." ”

Zhang Wei immediately said: "If Chen Wenzhao is divided into six routes, I am still a little afraid. Now he is in one place, ready to lead the army to attack Yangping Pass, but I am not afraid at all. ”

"Yangping Pass is extremely steep, even if the army of Guanzhong is pressing, what does it matter? Brother also asked me to have 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses, and I will definitely let Chen Xu come and go. ”

Zhang Lu said with some hesitation: "The strength of the Guanzhong soldiers is strong, and if you rashly become an enemy, I am afraid that you will kill yourself." ”

Zhang Wei immediately said excitedly: "If a soldier is defeated and killed, it is not too late for my brother to surrender; If you are lucky enough to break through the Guanzhong soldiers, my brother Hugh will mention the surrender again! ”

Zhang Lu couldn't help Zhang Wei's bitter pleading, so he had to promise to give him 30,000 soldiers and horses to defend Yangping Pass. In Zhang Lu's heart, there is no trace of luck in defeating Chen Xu and becoming famous all over the world.

As long as Zhang Wei can hold Yangping Pass for two or three months, the million-strong army in the pass will definitely retreat without a fight due to the lack of food and grass. At that time, Liu Zhang and Liu Biao were not worried.

Seeing that his brother agreed to lead his troops to resist the enemy, Zhang Wei was immediately overjoyed, and he wanted to order all his troops and horses to kill Benyang Pingguan.

Yang Song suddenly admonished: "I have heard that the soldiers in Guanzhong are brave and good at fighting, and there are countless fierce generals and strategists, since General Zhang Wei has decided to fight to the death with the soldiers in Guanzhong, he might as well bring a few more generals to go, so as to rely on his arms." ”

For Yang Song's kind proposal, although Zhang Wei felt incredible, he still felt that there was some truth. He was about to ask a few generals to go with him, when he heard the voices of Yang Ang and Yang Ren asking for battle.

Zhang Lu thought about it for a while, and finally agreed to the two of them's invitation to fight.

Yan Pu, who had been standing next to him without speaking, suddenly had an inexplicable light flashing in his eyes, and stepped forward and said, "My lord, I am willing to go out with the army to give advice to General Zhang Wei." ”

Zhang Wei was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said: "If Lord Yan Bo goes with him, he will definitely be able to break through the soldiers this time!" ”